THE DAMAGE DONE. 



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through the Keas, which, if not more numerous, are according 

 to report becoming greater adepts at the destruction of 

 sheep." 



From these reports one can naturally fill in the sad 

 details. One can see vast stretches of good sheep country 



KEA COUNTRY: Clinton River and Mt. Mackenzie. 



left to the ravages of the hare and the north-wester ; and, 

 where flocks of sheep once fed and flourished, a great 

 loneliness reigns. 



In the valleys the empty homesteads and the lonely back 

 huts show how far man once penetrated into the fastnesses, 

 ere the flying terror, decimating his flocks, drove him 



